Who is your favourite

Not Alistair Cook then.

 

Favourite - Hassell and Farah

Least - Ashley Cole and John Terry

 

If u have ever seen vettel in an interview you will know he is a very nice bloke not arrogant at all, cracking sports man

 

it takes some doing making Hemsworth look knowledgeable.

 

You all know my favourite.

 

Favourite - Cavendish - Wears his heart on his sleeve, cries in interviews, praises his team mates, criticises people & a born winner. Probably the greatest sprinter ever

Least favourite - Controversial but probably Beckham - Vastly overrated as a player. Cost us at 98 world cup, cost us when he jumped out of the tackle in the build up to the 1st Brazil goal at 02 world cup & cost us in 06 when he said he was fit when he clearly wasn't & player poorly all tournament. Also it annoys me that he's a media darling who gets a free pass for cheating on his wife while the same newspapers lay in to Cole / Terry for the same thing

 

Mohammed Ali was the greatest sportsman, and my favorite. Funny, brilliant, principled, bit like myself.......
close 2nd is Senna
Least favorite? I never liked Di-Canio, and have yet to have anything to disuade me of that opinion.

 

' Favourite - Can I have two? Bradley Wiggins and Jessica Ennis. I'm just in awe of what they do. Genuine world class athletes who would have been winning races and medals at any period in history. Although Bradley might have struggled to win the Tour De France when the field was full of drugs cheats. Jess is a smashing lass and local too (albeit Sheffield) while Bradley Wiggins is just Bradley Wiggins.'

Two great choices Jay. One thing about Jess, and this in no way demeans her performances and ability, but I was reading an article about Jackie Joyner the other week.

Joyner's pb (1988) for the heptathalon is 260 points higher than second place (Kluft). To put that in to context that's the same difference between Kluft in 2nd and the 18th highest score of all time. That's pretty amazing. Too young to remember her but Jackie Joyner must have been an incredible athlete

 

Favourite - Neil Redfearn (favourite non-footy - Jimmy White)

Least favourite - Sepp Blatter (least favourite non-footy - that tosspot rugby player who used to be married to charlotte church. Welsh bloke. Can't remember his name and don't want to look it up on google cos i think it's good that i can't remember the arrogant pr!ck's name...Damn! It came to me as I was typing, Gavin Henson)

 

Jessica Ennis has run a faster 100 metre hurdles and 800 metres than Jackie Joyner-Kersee. She's jumped higher in the high jump. Her javelin, traditionally a weak event for Jess, is just a couple of metres behind. As his her shot put. Joyner-Kersee is a few tenths quicker over the 200 metres. Put Ennis against Joyner-Kersee at their very best over these 6 events and it would be nip and tuck. Very close.

But then comes the long jump. Jessica Ennis has jumped 6 metres 51 centimetres on three separate occasions and come very, very close to it numerous times. It's a good heptathlon jump. It'll score you over 1,000 points which is a world class score in any event in the heptathlon.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee has jumped 7 metres 49 centimetres. That's the second longest jump by a woman of all time. Not by a heptathlete, by any woman ever. It would score 1341 points in the heptathlon. She didn't do it in a heptathlon though. Her furthest jump in a heptathlon is 7 metres 27 centimetres. That scored her 1264 points. The highest score anyone has achieved in a single event in the heptathlon. Unsurprisingly it helped her to the world record for the heptathlon and won her the gold medal at the Seoul Olympics. A few days later she won the gold in the long jump with the Olympic record.

That world record stands at 7291 points. Jessica's personal best is 6955 points. A difference of 336 points. 254 of those points is the difference between the two women's long jump.

Jessica will get over 7,000 points one day, I'm sure of it. If she gets a PB in every event she has the potential to get in the region of 7,150. But she'll never get near that world record because Joyner-Kersee's long jump was just phenomenal. To be honest, I doubt I'll see it beaten in my life time. Although I said that about Michael Johnson's 200 metre record...

 

Fave - Mo Farah, Reggie Bush
Least - Craig Bellamy

 

Wasn`t she supposed to have been the one that influenced Flo Jo to take drugs? Although neither one ever tested positive during any competition, they were both "allegedlly" guilty of failing tests which were covered up by the US Olympic Committee !
I am not saying that she did take performance enhancers, but she is tainted !!

 

Thanks for that, genuinely interesting post! You know your heptathletes.

I still get goosebumps thinking about Jess's hurdles in the olympics. She looked so nervous before and I wondered whether the pressure was going to get to her.

My brother-in-law does some coaching at the EIS and knows Jess, and she always makes a big fuss of my niece. She is meant to be as genuinely lovely as she comes across on tv. My sister's family also know Becky Addlington's family (they bought my niece her first swimming costume which has been passed on to my little girl) and she is fantastic too. There's some special people knocking around British sport at the moment, not sure we realise how lucky we are

 

Hmmm, not sure that's fair. I think some people have made the link because Flo-Jo was coached by her husband and was her sister-in-law, but don't forget Flo-Jo never failed a test and was apparently tested more heavily than anyone else at Seoul due to rumours. Added to which out of competition testing began in 1989 (Flo-Jo retired in 1988 which was what fuelled the rumours) and Jackie Joyner-Kersee carried on competing for years after that (I think she won Olympic gold in 1992 as well).

 

I can't stand the man, I have to fast forward through his interviews on the BTCC because he annoys me so much, even when he's talking sense, same goes for Matt Neil. I was well chuffed when Gordon Shedden won the championship last season, because Neil and Plato are both so smug. That's my opinion of course.

Kimi Raikkonen is the complete opposite, great to watch.

 

favourite....the ant hill mob

worse........dick dastardly, cheating barsteward